>I've always been a cider guy, when the choice was otherwise beer. Among my apparent abnormalities is a lack of whatever gene causes people to like beer ( or coffee or baseball ) Have to drink something in a pub, so ... cider. In the US it hasn't really caught on ( at least among the Bud Lite crowd ) but a few brands are available in stores ( I have to rely on carry out as I pretty much never voluntarily walk into a bar - even now when they are non-smoking ) Alcohol in general was never the bullet with my name on it ( though growing up in the 60s that really wasn't a problem <g> )

So where did they get the wine for the Last Supper? .... Judas's Carry-out.

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>BTW re Scottish nationalists : I once ran into one in Inverness who convinced me the Stone of Scone in the Coronation Throne is a fake. Made a pretty convincing argument that a whole bunch of monks whose soul purpose was to protect the Stone and knew Edward was coming weren't likely to leave it lying around to be filched. Probably just replaced it with something they dug out of the privy.
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>When I asked this guy about "Bank of Scotland" bank notes he said "Aye, we took their bloody queen - but we kept our own banks!"

They can be very dour, bitter and twisted those Jocks. Inferiority complex I reckon. Talk about chips on the shoulder - I think they bear the one on which Edinburgh Castle stands.

BTW years back, when I used to cash my pay-cheque at a bank, I used to ask for my money in Scottish (Royal Bank of Scotland & Strathclyde Bank), Irish (before they chnged to the Punt - then the Euro), Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey notes, just so I'd have a pocket full of exotic, disparate and colourful notes. They were all legal tender in England but you should have seen bar tenders' faces when you handed them over! :-)
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